Procrustes Problems

John C. Gower and Garmt B Dijksterhuis

Description

Procrustean methods are used to transform one set of data to represent another set of data as closely as possible. The name derived from the Greek myth where Procrustes invited passers-by in for a pleasant meal and a night's rest on a magical bed that would exactly fit any guest. He then either stretched the guest on a rack or cut off their legs to make them fit perfectly into the bed. Theseus turned the tables on Procrustes, fatally adjusting him to fit his own bed. The text is the first systematic overview of Procrustean methods in one volume, presenting a unifying Analysis of Variance framework for different matching methods and the development of statistical tests.

Procrustes Problems

John C. Gower and Garmt B Dijksterhuis

Author Information

John C. Gower is on the Editorial board of Journal of Classification and of The Mathematical Scientist. He is a past President of the International Federation of Classification Societies, a past President of the British Region of the International Biometric society, and a past Honorary Secretary of the Royal Statistical Society.Garmt B. Dijksterhuis is on the Editorial board of Food Quality and Preference and is the Chairman of Sensometric Society.

Procrustes Problems

John C. Gower and Garmt B Dijksterhuis

Reviews and Awards

"The contents of this book are interesting and are not found in standard statistics textbooks...This book should provoke interest and curiosity amony statisticians about Procrustes analysis."--TECHNOMETRICS

"Although he authors go into many technical details of Procrustes methods, their style is still very clearI can strongly recommend Procrustes Problems to those interested in Procrustes methods."--Journal of the American Statistical Association